Legendary civil rights activist C.T. Vivian dies at 95

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Legendary civil rights activist C.T. Vivian dies at 95

'We’ve lost a founder of modern America, a pioneer who shrunk the gap between reality and our constitutional ideals of equality and freedom.'

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